Give The Wall
The Sunday Paper #554
May 11, 2025
Happy Mother’s Day!
I’m throughly enjoying being a student in Paula Krieg and Susan Joy Share’s Zhen Xian Bao series. I took their 4-week class in March, and I’m currently participating in a 2-week session. We’re exploring how to determine sizing in order to develop our own structures. Here’s a travel ZXB they designed and shared with us this week. I was so excited I had to make my own, which I’ll be taking with me to the Paper & Book Intensive (more on that next week). This view shows it opened up, but it folds down compactly for travel and/or carrying around.
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Another month in The Paper Year has flown by, and my students created some amazing Swirling Flowers. Watch the video. Pictured here: Paper Year member Susan Ruptash dip dyed her paper prior to folding it. The Paper Year will be open to new members July 1-10.
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For Give the Wall, Amanda Guest has created a site-specific wall installation at Studio Delson in Brooklyn, placing her works throughout the space (now through June 18th, by appointment). Guest’s “sensual minimalism” explores rigidity and fluidity, and movement within and away from the grid.
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Hand Papermaking is the journal in our field. Every year, they host an online auction featuring all kinds of paper goodies, from fibers and pigments, to handmade papers and paper art. I’ve donated the two items you see pictured below (Pure Paper and a Set of 3 Lampshades). There is so much more on the auction page.
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Check out the large scale work of Kim Heekyung, created with hanji and pigment, as featured on Art Delivery from The Jealous Curator.
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Paper Tidbits
- There’s one spot left in my Taos Paper Retreat. We’ll be weaving paper during the week of July 21st in the land of enchantment. Click here to read all about it and join us!
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Author’s Corner
With my new book coming out in November, I thought I’d spend the months leading up to publication sharing a bit about the process of bringing a book to life. Feel free to send me your questions, and I’ll try to address them here. Autographed copies of Weaving With Paper will be available for pre-order from me (along with special bonus content) this summer.
There is an entire chapter dedicated to tools and materials, and of course paper! The most unique tool is the weaving tool, which I learned about when a participant in my online class, Weave Through Winter, told me about this clever device that was readily available in Germany. She sent me a tool, and now they are available through Washi Arts. I think they were developed a long time ago to help children learn to weave, and I explain this in more detail in the book.
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